Rep. Mo Brooks used a clip of him responding to the Alexandria shooting in his Senate campaign ad. (Mo Brooks for Senate via YouTube)

An Alabama Republican has invoked the memory of the congressional baseball shooting to tout his opposition to gun control.

Rep. Mo Brooks, who represents for the northern part of his state, was in Alexandria, Va., last month when gunman James Hodgkinson opened fire and wounded five people, including House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.

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"June 14: A Bernie Sanders supporter fires on Republican Congressman," begins a Brooks ad for his current Senate run.

The spot notes that Brooks, 63, gave his belt to be used as a tourniquet before faulting the "liberal media" for asking about gun control after yet another American rampage shooting.

"The Second Amendment right to bear arms is to help ensure that we always have a republic," the conservative said in a TV clip from after the shooting that he repurposed for his campaign.

"So no, I'm not changing my opinion on any of the rights that we enjoy as Americans."

Internal polling reported by AL.com shows that though Brooks has gotten a boost from his presence at the failed assassination, he still is polling third among Republicans in the race for the Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Ahead of him are Luther Strange, appointed to the seat after Sessions's departure, and former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, who resigned to run for Senate after being suspended earlier this year for failing to follow the U.S. Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling.

Investigators gather at Eugene Simpson Field, the site where a gunman opened fire on June 14. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The primary is set to be held on August 15.

Brooks has made guns a focus of his campaign after the shooting, sponsoring a "Congressional Self-Defense Act" that would allow federal lawmakers to carry guns in the U.S. Capitol.

Scalise, a fellow Republican from Louisiana, was the most seriously wounded in the June 14 attack on a practice for the annual Congressional baseball game, and is still in the hospital after suffering a deep tissue infection.

Asked about Brooks's ad, a spokesman for the wounded congressman said "some people have different ideas about what's appropriate."

"The day of the shooting, while waiting at the hospital, I avoided the news/audio/video as much as possible. This makes my stomach turn," Scalise's chief of staff Brett Horton said on Twitter.

Also wounded in the shooting were congressional staffer Zack Barth, lobbyist Matt Mika, and Capitol Police officers Crystal Griner and David Bailey.